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Re:Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit by benaadams on Thursday February 08, 2018 @09:08AM (#16332090)
Twitters advertising flow is messed up

Promote Tweet -> Give card details -> Lets see what can do and cost $

Should be

Promote Tweet -> Lets see what can do and cost $ -> Give card details

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Re:Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit by bad_user on Thursday February 08, 2018 @09:57AM (#16332367)
If you're not willing to give your credit card details, you're probably not willing to pay anyway.
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Re:Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit by mseebach on Thursday February 08, 2018 @09:48AM (#16332314)
Perhaps it's a way to throttle analysis of their pricing algorithm?
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Re:Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit by noway421 on Thursday February 08, 2018 @03:50PM (#16335485)
Not messed up form revenue generating point of view.
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Re:Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit by csomar on Thursday February 08, 2018 @09:14AM (#16332115)
Are they able to check your card balance?
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Re:Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit by saguro on Thursday February 08, 2018 @09:21AM (#16332148)
No. Handing over card details just pre-authorizes them to make transactions later.
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Re:Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit by benaadams on Thursday February 08, 2018 @09:20AM (#16332144)
No; but twitter will likely get a better conversion rate if they tell people what it is they are buying and the cost, prior to handing over their payment details
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Re:Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit by smogcutter on Thursday February 08, 2018 @01:02PM (#16334101)
Seems like this way they filter out the looky-loos and narrow the gap between seeing the price and making a purchase.
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